Jazz at the JFC Club and other Saint Petersburg, Russia Nightlife Tips

Nightlife Spot: JFC Jazz Club

One of the best places to hear live Jazz.
open 1900-2300, admission 100-300 rubles.

It has about 15 small tables and some stools along the bar.
If you want to sit at a table you need to call and make a reservation, about 400 rubles for table.
You can come early and claim a barstool, 150-250 rubles cover charge.
Or come around 8 when the music starts and stand all night :)

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Theme: Live Music
Dress Code: Casual, come as you want.
schedule
http://www.jfc.sp.ru/afisha.html
Phone: 812-272 98 50
Address: Shpalernaya 33
Directions: Metro Chernyshevskaya , right 4 streets to Shpalernaya and turn left, go through the arch at #33.
http://maps.google.ru/maps?hl=en&q=%D0%A8%D0F%D00%D0B%D05%D1%80%D0D%D00%D1%8F+33+st+petersburg&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl
Website: http://www.jfc.sp.ru/
Other Contact: jazz@jfc.sp.ru

Nightlife Spot: Kirov Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre

The Kirov Ballet is the major ballet of St. Petersburg and performs at the Marinskiy Theatre. They also tour internationally, sometimes the star you want to see might be touring and not in St. Peterburg.

A great website for star and photos fromt the Kirov Ballet:
http://www.for-ballet-lovers-only.com/List2.html

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Theme: Dancing
Dress Code: Usually dress nice, but all levels of dress are seen.
Address: Maryinsky Theater, Theater Square
Directions: Metro Sadovaya/Sennaya and walk along the canal,
or up Dekabristov Street from St. Isaac's Square.
Website: http://www.kirov.com/

Nightlife Spot: Xxxx 2 Bar

A popular club for people who want to have fun Russian style.
Need to reserve a table a week ahead or go early and sit at the bar. Later there will be no tables or seats.

On a friday or Saturday there will be a lot of people and you can see a lively club of people having fun. There may be some strip shows after midnight on the bar. But the main attraction is lively music with a DJ and emcee to make sure everyone is having a good time.

It has face control and reservation of a table is 1500 rubles (And tables are all reserved every night) But you can go before 9 pm and sit on a barstool and see an upscale Russian club for free. Tea is 100 rubles a pot with cookies, interesting mohito drink is 300 rubles.

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Theme: Nightclub
Dress Code: Dress well, clean, successful looking. Three big security guys at the door make sure no troublemakers get in.

They have another club at the Yacht Club and a new one opening on the gulf next to the Russian Fishing restaurant on Krestovsky Ostrov.
Phone: +7(812) 715-2407
Address: 3rd Sovietskaya street 34
Directions: Metro Mayakovskaya or Ploschad Vostania
Метро:
Маяковская
Площадь Восстания
Website: http://www.xxxxbar.ru/afisha.html

Nightlife Spot: Money Honey

Western fun rock from Elvis and beyond. Three floors, live music first floor, russian disco upstairs and billiard room.
Entrance 150 rubles women, 200 rubles men on weekends.
Usually two bands per evening with fun American rock. Decor is Elvis and music Americana.
The clientele are mostly normal working Russian people, but foreigners can feel welcome, but the bar people may not understand english.

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Theme: Nightclub
Dress Code: Come as you are!
Phone: (812)310-0549
Address: Apraksin Dvor, Building 13
Directions: Metro gostinniy Dvor, one block on Sadovaya Street, 28
Website: http://money-honey.ru/web.content/

Nightlife Spot: Liverpool

A Beatles theme cafe pub with the name Liverpool, home of the fab four Beatles. Three seating areas, some billiards and classic rock of the era. Business lunch under 200 rubles.

The Beatles always had a strong following in Russia and their songs are regulars on popular radio today.

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Theme: Live Music
Phone: 7-812 279-20-54
Address: 16 Ulitsa Mayakovskaya
Directions: Mayakovskaya Metro and 10 minutes walk
Website: http://www.liverpool.ru
Other Contact: mail@liverpool.ru

Nightlife Spot: Jam Hall movie theaters

There are two Jan Hall movie theaters in St. Petersburg.
They have sofas for seating 2 or 3 people and serve pizza and cocktails while you enjoy the show. You turn on a little red light on the small table in front of your sofa for service.
The service is slow. For the midnight shows there is no food service and the waitresses leave in 15 minutes.
Things from the bar are generally good and pizza not bad. Ice cream may taste old and soda may be served warm. But if the movie is good and the company good, it is a nice place!

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Theme: Theater
Address: Metro Petrogradskaya
Website: http://www.jamhall.ru/

Nightlife Spot: Jimi Hendrix Blues Club


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Theme: Live Music
Phone: 579 88 13
Address: Liteiniy Prospect 33
Directions: Литейный просп., 33
579 88 13
Metro Mayakovskaya
Go up Liteiny prospekt from Nevski prospekt

Nightlife Spot: Liod Lemon

Large club with smaller rooms. Lots of comfortalbe seating and a unique rotating bar.
Modern decor, meandering layout.
Dance music, feeling of VIP.
Entrance is 500 rubles ($19)

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Theme: Nightclub
Dress Code: Face control! That means if they don't like how you look, you stay on the street.
Address: Griboedova Canal 6
Directions: Near Church on the Spilled Blood

Nightlife Spot: Jazz Philharamonic Hall

I heard the Valery Nagorny Trio. Valery is a well-known jazz saxophonist and composer. He may be teh best i have ever heard.
He plays many melodic standards such as "Round Midnight" to his own modern compositions. For the foreigner it is a delightful mix of familiar and new. I am waiting to hear Valery at the Monterey Jazz Festival. :) Valery is lately on tour in europe and America.

The Jazz Philharmonic Hall nightclub is a major venue for jazz in Saint Petersburg. The seating is cabaret tables with cocktails. The mural on the wall is of American jazz artist from the classic band era.

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Theme: Live Music
Dress Code: The audience is from casual to formal. A less demonstrative crowd than in US jazz venues. But obviously an appreciative audience. Nice place to go with friends to talk, hear good music and perhaps mingle a bit.
Address: Zagorodnyiy pr. 27 Saint Petersburg
Website: http://www.sennaya.com/nagorny/

Nightlife Spot: Evening Outing

Take a few steps down from street level into a real Irish Pub with 14 varieties of beer and live music 5 nights a week. It seems odd that this is the only watering hole near the Marinsky Theater, the ultimate venue for classical music and ballet.

Perhaps some feel the need for some folk music and beer arter a highbrow evening. :) Service is light, atmosphere relaxed.
Televised Sports events may on cue.
The CCE (Celtic City Experience) Irish band with Jenja and Elena was very pleasant for listening and talking to friends. Some nights may be noisy with louder music. :)

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Theme: Live Music
Phone: 318 46 25
Address: 27 Dekabristov, Saint Petersburg
Directions: Walk out of the Marinsky Theater and look across the way
Website: http://www.shamrock.ru/